Coir Tour

Al Coir, 1958-1959, sent a bunch of pictures. Here are some that will take you on a tour of SanSal.

Thanks Al!
GMCF #2 t GMCF #2 a t Rate leg radome t02

LtoR: GMCF #2 / ditto / Rare picture of a Rate Radome

I never knew that SanSal was originally intended to GUIDE missles (Guided Missile Control Facility #2 (GMCF #2), since it was believed that the Cape (GMCF #1) could not penetrate the exhaust plume of the engines. Turns out that they were mistaken, and SanSal became Range Safety only.
transportation document t

Travel Authorization
al coir 2 t al coir t al on the rocks t

LtoR: Al Coir / Al Coir / Al on the rocks
coir's room t Base Barracks t main street Base t

LtoR: Al Coir’s Room (typical) / Barracks / Main Street Barracks
control tower t BIG rangeliner t SHORT runway t

LtoR: Control Tower (this one at Eluthera, SanSal was similar) / BIG C-54 Rangeliner / SHORT Runway

Later, the Rangeliner was a C-47.
movie screen and place before Reef Club t RCA weather station t Place where Reef Club was built t

LtoR: Movie screen and place where the Reef Club was built / RCA weather station / Place where Reef Club was built
beach rats t02 another great beach t

LtoR: Not rangerats yet: long pants, real shoes, kinda nerdy / another great beach!
rats2 T rangerats t dunno and Coir t

LtoR: Doug Powell/Oscar Veilleu / Jerry Golick/?/Hank Cornellier?/
Al Coir / unknown/Al Coir
bride t
another church t
bahboat t

LtoR: Bride / Bahboat / church dunno where
cockburn town church 2 t
cockburn town church t

LtoR: Church at Cockburn Town
monument t coir and monumnet t monument inscription t

LtoR: Monument / Al at monument / monument inscription
lighthouse2 t kids at lighthouse t lighthouse3 t

LtoR: Lighthouse / kids at lighthouse / lighthouse
dunno t more kids t villiage t

LtoR: Cockburn Town (I think) / more kids / town near Sugar Loaf
rough day t north of bonefish bay t San_Sal010-35 t

LtoR: Rough Day! / North of Bonefish Bay / another great beach
typical scrub t ruin t inland lake t

LtoR: typical island scrub / outhouse from abandoned school house / inland lake
tree before herbies bar was built t02

One of the few palm trees: Herbie, the bartender at the Reef built his bar here.
who1 t unknown t who2 t who3 t

LtoR: unknown / Hank Cornellier / unknown / Doug Powell
transport barge t
supply transport t

L: Transport (Goat Boat?) R:LST supply ship. The Goat Boat docked at Cockburn Town. The LST (Landing Ship Tank) pulled up on the beach by Carterville that was dredged a bit by the Corps of Engineers. Vehicles and cargo were offloaded via the clamshell doors in the bow. This one is the Morgan County. There are some construction photos at the Canaveral AS Museum that I will obtain this fall.